Wetherhorn v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the substantive appeal was moot because \the thirty-day period for which Wetherhorn was committed ha[d] long since passed\
• holding that an evidence-based challenge to an expired 30-day commitment order was moot and would not be reviewed absent an exception to the mootness doctrine
• holding that the public interest exception to mootness does not apply to an evidentiary challenge to an involuntary commitment that has since expired
• holding that an evidence-based challenge to an expired 30-day commitment order was moot and would not be reviewed absent an exception to the mootness doctrine
• holding that the public interest exception to mootness does not apply to an evidentiary challenge to an involuntary commitment that has since expired
• stating that commitment statute is constitutional “if construed to require a level of incapacity so substantial that the respondent cannot survive safely in freedom”

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